i write all the time because i got a whole bunch of ideas that needs to go out of my brain and onto the paper....
they are screaming let me out~! in my head...
but the thing is....i never get to finish any single one of them..... cuz i would get new ideas everyday......

I don't write fanfiction much, but I notice that the times that I REALLY have the urge to do so is when I am really in love with the original story. Usually I don't even want to change anything about it...I just don't want it to end! So I think up ways to keep the story going in my mind, thus fanfiction. Although it's nice when I can share it with a friend or two who also enjoyed the original story and would appreciate the fanfiction piece, I DON'T write fanfiction to share my ideas with other people. I write it for myself, to keep the story alive. When I truly want to share my ideas, I write an original story. But that's just me.

To show their perceptive of the world through words.
But those words have more meaning then just plain words.
It also reflects their feelings to whats around them.
And expresses how the feel and they dont wanna vent to someone.

Yeah! Fan fiction is all about rewriting your favourite characters in a storyplot similar or way different than the original, Only the characters themselves stay the same. The rest of the story changes. Their situation goes crazy and your favourite chars are your to control

People write fan fiction for lots of reasons... most of them already mentioned... but, I also agree that it's a cop-out. People find it easier to write a story when they have a base of established characters to work with... which I think is lame. It's like making the character's into some sort of cliche... just like filler arcs in animes (Bleach's bount arc comes to mind... ). Now... if someone were to--i don't know--change up the formula and do something differently... then I might want to read it. (On that note... you know what I'd like to see in bleach? No more one-on-one pissing contest fights! Matchups are oldschool! Lets see some war!)